Improvement in operating the copping-rails of cop-spinners



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W. ROUSE.

00P SPINNING.

No. 7,759. Patented Nov. 5, 1850.

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W. HOUSE.

00P SPINNING.

Patented NOV. 5, 1850A.

nlllflul LM @um M UNITED STATES PATENT WANION'ROUSE, OF TAUN'ION, MASSACHUSETTS IMPROVEMENT IN OPERATING THE COPPlNG-RAILS 0F COP-SPINNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,759, dated November 5, 1850.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, TVANTON tO'UsE, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery used in Spinning-Frames for Building Cops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ol the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formin'g a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of part of a spinningframe having my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is an end view of the fra-me. Fig. 3 is a front view. Fig. 45 is a transverse vertical section taken in a direction looking from the opposite Fig. 5 is a per;

end to that shown in Fig. spective view of the cam for shifting the bands detached from the machinery.

Similar letters of reference in the several gures indicate-corresponding parts.

The nature of 'my invention consists in a new and improved mode of yoperating and changing the'spe'ed of-the upward and downward motions of the ring-rail -for governing the winding of the thread in forming thecops.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to dc` scribe its .construction and operation.

A A is theframe'. B is the roller-beam. C

is the step-'rail on which thespindles are sup-A ported. l) is the spindle-box. E is the ringrail. e e are its lifting-rods, which pass'throughA guides on the step-rail and frame.

G is a shaft resting in bearings in front of the frame and extendin gall along it. It carries pulleys H H, which have chains or bands h h securely attached at one end to their peripheries and passing over or around them, the said chains or bands being attached at their other ends to the lower ends of the rods e e. (See Fig. 4.) The shaft G also carries another pulley, I, of larger dia-meter than H H.

J J are two parallel bars running across the Vframe from back to front. y

K is a lever, having its fulcrum k, which is at the back end, in the said bars J J. It reaches to the front of the frame and its end works in guides. It carries near'the middle a roller or barrel, a, which hasitsaXis mounted iu suitable bearings, and has a ratchet-wheel, b, attached toit. Achain or band, c, is attached by the yfront of the frame.

vlower side, which bears on the said cam.

one end to the roller or barrel a, and passes along the upper sideof the lever K and over its front end. The other end of this chain or hand passes under and around the pulley I on the shaft G, and it is secured to its periphery. (See Fig. 4.)

L is a wedge or block of metal, inclined on its upper side and having teeth or cogs on its lower side. It is iitted between the bars J J in such a manner as to slide freely between them, being l-:ept by guides in a horizontal line. The lever K has a projection, u, on its under side, (best seen in Fig. 4,) which always rests ou the inclined or upper side ofthe wedge L.

M is a shaft hung in suitable bearings near It carries a toothed wheel, N, a small toothed wheel, P, and 'a pinion,'0, all fast on its axis. 'Ihe toothed wheel P gears with the teeth on the wedge L. It also carries a scroll-cani, V, the form of which is best seen in Fig. 5, .and is also secu in Figs. 1 and 3.

It is a shaft hung behind the shaft M, and having the toothed wheel S, equal iu size to N, fast upon its axis, said wheel gearing with the pinion O. The said shaft also carries the pulley T, which is also fast ou its axis, close to the wheel S. It also carries the pinion V, gearing with the wheel N and the pulley T. The last-mentioned pinion and wheel arose- 'eured together, but are loose upon the shaft. A loose pulley, T2, is also hung upon the shaft R, between the pulleys T and T'.

'W is a shaft hung in suitable bearings at the back part of the frame. It carries the pulley and the broad pulley Y.

Z is the cylinder, carrying on its axis the first driving-pulley, d, and the pulley f.

g is a band from the pulley f to the'pulley X. i is a straight band from the pulley Y on the shaft W to the pulley T on the shaft R, and l is a crossed band from the same pulley Y to the loose pulley T2.

mA is a belt-shipper, which is a lever having its fulcrum at the back of the frame. It is bent down so as nearly to touch the cam V on the shaft M, Vand has' a pin, 1, projecting from the front end slides in a guide attached to one of the front rails of the frame.

The operation is as follows: Rotary motion Its is given to the cylinder-shaft, and through the band g is communicated by the pulley f to Y that lX on the shaft W. The banda gives motion to the pulley Tz in the direction of the arband c gives part of a revolution to the shaft G. The wheels H H, winding the bands h h on their peripheries, raise the lifting-rods c e, causing the ring-rail E to be elevated at a ver-y gradual or slow speed. The spindles rotating at a great velocity, they thread will be guided so as to be wound round the cop in nearly hori- 'zontal coils. .At the time the rail reaches its highest position the shaft M will have revolved so as to canse the cam V to lead the pin 1 on the belt-shipper m across its face and lead the bel-t i to the loose pulley .l" and the crossed belt l to the pulley T, which will cause the shaft M to rotate inthe opposite direction to that described, and at a greatly -increased speed. The wheel P will lead back the wedge L andthe lever K will fall, leaving the bands o' and hto be free and allowing the ring-rail to descend quickly, leading down the thread so as to form a bind-thread on the cop.

The band c may be tightened, when necessary, by turning the roller d, the ratchet b being prevented from returningV bymeans of pawls taking into the teeth.

The motion of the gearing may be reversed by means of a clutch-box, by friction-pulleys, or bya ratchet-'wheeler other device, if considered preferable to- 'belts and pulleys.

What I claim as new in my invention, andI O fast upon its axis, with the shaft R, having on it a fast toothed wheel, S, and aloose smaller Wheel or pinion, V, operated by shifting-belts and pulleys or other similar changing or reversing gear.

WANTON ROUSE.

. Witnesses:

BENJ. R. DEAN, FRANCIS B. DEAN. 

